diggin the color and thegraphics.

big whoop 0.2 secs…

Hey Ford Motor you payin attention this is something worth looking into. Their are not many cars in the world that can do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. I’d be willing to bet that electric cars could do 0-60 in under 1 Second if manufacturers r serious about electrics. Electrics could make IC engine cars a thing of the past

Well yes, the internal combustion engine’s days are numbered. I’ll miss the brown haze that hangs over most of my State.

Neat looking car.

“I remember watching a episode of Top Gear (simply the best TV car show ever)… And Clarkson dove a Telsa one on their track, it was FAST!!! it was Faster then the Lotus that they had on hand. The car was as he said “marvelous” and 12 laps or so in to the display of the car’s dynamics of it’s performance, it dies, the battery ran out… But the good thing is they had another Telsa on hand! And so round 2!!!!…. Until that one died in about 14 laps of so… And they both took more then 6hrs. to recharge….”

“Clarkson’s conclusion just but the Lotus, it’s cheaper and you get the performance with out an extension cord…”

And yes I have posted this comment up before, but it was base on actual data, Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for greener performance. Back in 1996 I believe Ford presented us with the Super Stallion a 590hp blown DOHC 5.4 that ran on E85… It’s “carbine foot print” is that same as today’s Lotus, now that is what they call green performance…

It’s great that they are able to get more out of it, can’t wait til the technology gets cheaper.
Also, Bankruptcy, it would be physically impossible for a car to get to 60 in under a second, I don’t think even professional drag cars can do that, even with a ton of torque, you have to be able to deliver it all to the pavement

I think the Tesla is an awesome car and this update is pretty cool too. I like the accents and the handling seems to have some room for improvement, so that’s welcome. Performance tires are probably a good thing as well.

However, I would like to clarify that during the Top Gear test, it never ran out of power – or even below a 20% charge. Supposedly, Top Gear ran some numbers and worked out that running the car as hard as they could, it would run out of power after 55 miles. But it didn’t ever run out of power, so that number has to be taked with a grain of salt. Them pushing the car into the garage was just for show, to make a point.

I’m sure, driving the car hard, the Tesla wouldn’t get near to it’s supposed 200+ mile range, but put your foot on the floor in a Veyron and you’re down to fumes in 12 minutes. Normal, legal driving will increase the range of both cars considerably. As for charging time, the Tesla has a charging station that’ll get the job done in 3.5 hours.

I agree the limited range and the fact that the Tesla can’t fill up at a gas station make it less than ideal for road trips or as an only car. But it’s still a really cool car and if I won the Powerball, I guarantee I’m on that waiting list. Probably with the Sport package.

you mean carbon foot print.

and yeah i agree.. youre an idiot bankruptcy

What happens to Tesla if the Dodge Circuit makes it to production for half the price? Yes, it’s nothing more than speculation at this point but If I were them I might be a little concerned.

Obviously comparing an electric sports car to a top fuel dragster is pointless. No one will ever be driving a 8,000 hp dragster on the street, but…….

It is not impossible for a car to go 0-60 in 1 sec. Top Fuel drag cars go 0-60 in half a second. Here’s a quote from an article from Hot Rod magazine

“Top Fuel drag racing is famous for vulgar displays of speed: 0-60 in half a second, a quarter-mile in less than 4.7 seconds, and top speeds in excess of 325 mph.”

Top Fuel dragsters weigh 500 lbs less than the Tesla, and have 7,750 more HP than it.

The unfortunate thing about this vehicle is that it looks like a mail-order kit car. It’s not overly attractive.

Put this next to the Fisker and the Tesla looks like a matchbox car in terms of style and refinement.

Dynamically, its apparently quite brilliant.

The amazing aspect is that Tesla brought it to market to begin with. Given Tesla’s limited resources they make the Big 1.0000025 (I am not counting Ford in the equation) look like the obese, wasteful, bailout corporations that they have become today. Tesla is what American ingenuity is all about—not the like GM or Chrysler.

I dunno, the plain Jane copy cost about 110 large, exclusive one around 130K, How many of you guys are dropping deposits on either one of those? I thought so…

All Teslas are “exclusive” when they’ve only delivered 150.

johnny,

I presume that when that happens, Tesla start buying their components from the same supplier as Dodge and we all rejoice as mass production brings eco-sportiness into our financial reach. Tesla becomes the new Lotus and in 20 years we all look back and thank them for saving the world.

Except we won’t because this will be irrelevant once the hydrogen revolution takes hold.

Hydrogen revolution? Talk about a pipe dream.

Top Gear lost serious credibility with their unabashedly biased preview of the Honda Clarity FCX fuel cell car.

Main Points they failed to mention:

1) Um…hydrogen is extremely volatile! Does the Hindenburg ring any bells? One spark near their “hydrogen filling station” and it’ll make smoking while filling up with petrol seem like a birthday candle. Is it easy to set it off? Not likely, but guaranteed somebody will screw up sometime and……well….there goes the neighborhood.

2) People balk at the Tesla Roadster’s price and limited production …..but how much does a Clarity cost? When will they be widely available? We don’t know, because the Top Gear guys didn’t think it was important enough to mention.

3) There’s no hydrogen infrastructure. Where are you supposed to fill these cars up if you don’t live in that microscopic area of California? How much is that going to cost to develop? I live in a small town in Northern Canada. How long do you think it will take for us to get a hydrogen filling station within 1000km? Or two stations? Or ten? And how much will the hydrogen cost per liter when it gets here? Electricity is everywhere NOW.

4) Energy requirements – Top Gear criticized the Tesla for still needing big, polluting energy plants to produce its electricity. However, it still takes upwards of 50kWh of electricity to produce a single kilogram of fuel-cell-grade hydrogen, so those polluting plants won’t go away if fuel cells become the norm. Electricity production is a two-step process: Produce and Utilize, whereas fuel cells need an extra resource-wasting step to actually create their hydrogen.

5) Even the worst coal or nuclear plant pollutes much less than millions of IC engines it could replace, and they aren’t necessarily even a requirement. Electricity can be produced anywhere using whatever method is readily available in a given region (coal, hydro, wind, solar, etc)

Electricity is like the open-source of energy. The only thing holding it back are the batteries and those are improving every day.

@ Mayhemm…
I understand your point of view, I also understand the Facts that you have presented. I seriously doubt that a very well established journalistic program will purposely jeopardize it’s creditability by falsifying Telsa’s performance.

And yes hydrogen is extremely volatile but in gas form. Hydrogen vehicles need to carry it in a liquid form. And in liquid form you can throw it in to a fire, and most likely it will put out the fire. The Los Angeles MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) has buses running on Hydrogen for the past 6 years. Not only that, the cost to produce Hydrogen is what? H2O… Electrify water and separate the Oxygen from the Hydrogen… A Hydrogen vehicles simply reverses the process, that dose produce energy and can power electric motors. That’s why you get water coming out of the tail pipe, H2O…

Very little energy is needed to electrify water, the energy that you refrigerator uses can be use to produce Hydrogen. They are now testing Hydrogen station’s powered by Solar Energy, and use tap water to produce Hydrogen… It just releases the Oxygen in to the atmosphere… You can convert a gas station in to a Hydrogen station in less time then it will take to put up a EV recharging station…

GM’s EV1 was once considered to be a pipe dream, and look how far they have made it today. But a Hydrogen vehicle can be produce, and it can exceed the potential of a EV car. You can plug in and charge up true. But how long will it take. Or you can fill up and go on your way…

It’s like Blue Ray DVD’s vrs. HD DVD’s the Bigger Players controlled the game, Blue Ray won. Shell Oil are the one’s providing the Big Bucks so far… And ya there is $2 Billion the Government is putting aside for battery technology but how mush of that is going to go to the right hands?

Vaporware…..hyping a “new” version when they are not yet delivering the older one at anything close to a production rate.

I will personally admit that this Sport version of the Tesla Roadster is exceptionally good looking, much better than the base version. Well done Tesla.

Just keep delivering the vehicles Tesla…the more on the road gives us valuable information for he masses. We need more “early adopters” in order for us to be able to afford the technology when the volume picks up. They should get some of the “tarp” money. Go Tesla!!

There are plenty of early adopters, more vehicles is the problem.